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The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe viewers can't get over Karl Pilkington's role in drama

Ricky Gervais' pal and notorious grump was acting in the new ITV drama

Wales Online

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe final episode: When is it and how to watch?

When is the final episode of The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe?

Wales Online

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: Anne Darwin shared her regret at lying to sons in unearthed interview

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe is a new ITV drama examining the story behind the 'fake death' plan

Manchester Evening News

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Anne Darwin's sorrow at lying to sons over their dad's fake death now shown in ITV drama

Anne is played by Monica Dolan in the ITV series

Nottingham Post

‘Insulting!’: viewers criticise accents in ‘canoe man’ drama

Writer of The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe forced to defend characters’ accents after social media criticism

The Guardian - UK

Anne Darwin's regret at 'unforgivable lies' to sons over John Darwin's 'death'

John and Anne Darwin's life has been examined in the new ITV drama, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, and in an unearthed interview, Anne shares her regret at the lies she told, especially to her sons

Daily Mirror

How were John and Anne Darwin caught? Scam exposed by one 'stupid' moment and Google search

John and Anne Darwin ended up behind bars after their appalling 'fake death' scam was eventually rumbled

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ITV The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe clap back after viewers blast 'brutal' issue

Viewers were taken aback as they spotted a problem with the new show

Liverpool Echo

Canoe fraudster John Darwin now living totally different life after faking own death

John is the subject of new ITV show The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe - and here's where he is now

Daily Record

The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe viewers slam actors over 'insulting' accent fail

The new ITV drama about John Darwin, known as 'Canoe Man' after he faked his own death in 2002, aired on Easter Sunday. But viewers from Hartlepool, which is where the story unfolded, were baffled by the actors' attempts at their regional accent

Daily Mirror

ITV's The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe hits back after viewers spot 'insulting' problem

Viewers tuned in to watch the gripping new drama that depicts the real-life story of John and Anne Darwin

Manchester Evening News

Canoe man 'nearly spotted gardening' when he was pretending to be dead

John Darwin and his wife were handed more than six years behind bars for the fraud

Wales Online

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe review: Did the story of the ‘Canoe Man’ really need to leave us this depressed?

The juxtaposition of a ludicrous crime with a gritty depiction of a manipulative, controlling relationship doesn’t work: it leaves both sides of that drama feeling oddly unsatisfying

The Independent UK

Canoe man John Darwin nearly blew own cover when seen gardening after faking death

John Darwin was so cocky about not being recognised in his disguise of a beard and a hat - while his sons mourned him, he would potter around in the garden

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Inside life of 'Canoe Man' John Darwin's ex-wife - from fake death to pension scam

John Darwin faked his own death at sea in 2002 and hid in a secret room at home while wife Anne made a fortune in a life insurance and pension scam. Their story is told in a new TV drama

The Guardian - UK

Death, fraud and canoes: how a mind-blowing insurance scam became an ITV drama

John Darwin pretended to die at sea – then spent years in a secret room in his house while his sons mourned. As The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe brings the caper to TV, its creator and star talk crime, coercion … and dentures

The Guardian - UK

‘In France, I’d be a sex symbol’: Eddie Marsan on looks, lucky breaks and playing angry men

Over a bowl of chips in a local café, actor Eddie Marsan revels in his East End culture, and the challenges of finding a human side to aggressive male characters

Daily Mirror

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: ITV drop teaser clip for death faker John Darwin drama

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe tells the tale of Hartlepool fraudsters Anne and John Darwin, who shocked the nation after faking his death to secure insurance money to pay off debts

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Wales Online

The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe: When is the ITV drama on TV?

There's finally a date for the long-teased real-life ITV drama

Evening Standard

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe on ITV: the unbelievable true story of John and Anne Darwin

The wild tale of how ‘canoe man’ John Darwin faked his death for an insurance payout is now the subject of an ITV drama

Daily Mirror

'Canoe man' John Darwin almost killed himself for REAL in bid to fake his death

Fraudster John Darwin wrote his memoirs while in jail for a £500,000 life insurance fraud - he revealed he actually nearly did kill himself for real 'without meaning to' when he pretended to vanish in his kayak

Daily Mirror

'Canoe Man' John Darwin 'on his way' to fight in Ukraine according to his wife

As as a new ITV drama based on the life of 71-year-old fraudster 'Canoe Man' John Darwin hits our screens, Mercy Mae Avila Darwin, 48, said his presence in Ukraine would be 'dangerous for the Russian when he shoot them'

Chronicle Live

One of John Darwin's sons sneaked onto set of new ITV show about canoe fraud couple 'in disguise'

The new ITV show is about the fake death fraud and is called The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe

Daily Mirror

John Darwin’s fake death scam TV creator begs people to stop blaming wife

John and Anne Darwin shocked the UK in 2007 when they were rumbled for faking his death in a £1 million pension and insurance scam as they tried to build a secret new life in Panama

Wales Online

TV drama of canoe couple's story hopes to bring theme of forgiveness

When John and Anne Darwin fooled the world, and their sons, into thinking he had died in the North Sea, it was one of the UK’s most shocking crimes

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